April 16-17, 2011 - Confirmed Conference Speakers
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Victoria Hale, PhD, Founder of Medicines360; Founder and Chair Emeritus, OneWorld Health
Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University
More keynote speakers to be announced
Confirmed Featured Speakers
"How Do You Know When You've Revolutionized An Industry?: Ashoka's Approach to Assessing Impact," Karabi Acharya, ScD, Change Leader, Ashoka
"Workshop - Social Entrepreneurs: Systems Thinking in Action," Karabi Acharya, ScD, Change Leader, Ashoka
"Design Education in the Humanitarian Sphere: Designmatters Best Practices," Mariana Amatullo, Vice President, Director, Designmatters Department, Art Center College of Design
"Readying Orphans For Their Community: Models For Taking Orphans Out Of Isolation," Jane Aronson, MD, CEO and Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
"Doctors as Storytellers: Using Our Stories For Social Change," Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC's Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
"Workshop - New Media For Global Health," Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC's Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
"Investing in Adolescent Girls -- The Transition to Adulthood," Wendy Baldwin, Vice President, Poverty, Gender and Youth, Population Council
"Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS, Music, and Health in Uganda," Gregory Barz, PhD, Ethnomusicologist, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University
"High-Impact Social Entrepreneurship" Elmira Bayrasli, Policy and Outreach, Endeavor
"Workshop - Social Entrepreneurship," Elmira Bayrasli, Policy and Outreach, Endeavor
"Global Approaches to Global Health: Lessons Learned From The Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise," Alan Bernstein, PhD, Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise
"Mobile Potential: Scaling Health Access," Matthew Berg, ICT Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project
"Enterprise Solutions to Sustainable Social Change," Ron Bills, Chairman & CEO, Envirofit International
"Global Health Innovation Partnerships - Accelerating Access to Medical Technologies in Tanzania," Jeffrey Blander, ScD, President, Bienmoyo Foundation
"Asking The Right Questions: Lessons Learned From The Cuban Health System," Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
"Workshop - Improving Organizational Performance in Low-Income Settings," Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Administration; Director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health
"Doctors With Borders," Michael Brennan, MD, American Academy of Ophthalmology Past President, Alamance Eye Center
P. Sean Brotherton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
"Orchestration of the Host Immune Response by Malaria Parasites," Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
"Innovations and Technologies for Resource Constrained Settings: Opportunities and Strategies," Thomas F. Burke, MD, Chief, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Massachusetts General Hospital Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, MGH Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, KCA University and Victoria Institute for Science and Technology, Kisumu, Kenya
Gillian Caldwell, Executive Director, 1Sky
"Maternal Health and Societal Development," Sharon Camp, President and CEO, Guttmacher Institute
"Strategies to Prevent Maternal Mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean," Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine; Academic Director, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Partners in Health
"Challenges and Opportunities For Improving Health Care Systems," Paul Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
"Randomized Trials in Malaria: Questions, Answers and More Questions," Jessica Cohen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health
Josh Cohen, Managing Partner, City Light Capital
"Proof of Sustainable Eye Care Systems in Africa, The Only Way To V2020," Kate Coleman, BSc, PhD, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Executive Chairman, Right To Sight
Daryl Collins, Senior Associate, Bankable Frontier Associates
Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group
Thatcher Cook, Documentary Photographer, Pictographers
"Fail Early, Launch Well: Why Getting it Going is More Important Than Getting It Right (At Least At First)," Cindy Cooper, Director, Social Innovation Incubator, School of Business Administration, Portland State University
Scott Corlew, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast
"The Evolution of Development and Urgent Need for a Genetic Jump," Mark Dybul, Co-Director Global Health Law Program; Distinguished Visiting Scholars, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University
Nathan Eagle, CEO, txteagle Inc; Visiting Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab; Research Assistant Professor, Northeastern Computer Science; Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Gene Falk, Co-founder and President, mothers2mothers
"Enterprise Solutions to Poverty," Michael Fairbanks, co-Founder, SEVEN
"Designing Social Impact," Heather Fleming, Catapult Design
"Technologies for Rural Health," Rich Fletcher, PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
"Pediatric Vision Screening in Western Hunan Province," Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Medical Studies, Yale School of Medicine; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
"Collaborative Development of Open Source Medical Record Systems in Developing Countries: The OpenMRS Experience," Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc, Director of Informatics and Telemedicine, Partners in Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Robert Freling, Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund
Jarrod Goentzel, PhD, Executive Director, MIT Supply Chain Management Program; Research Director, MIT Humanitarian Logistics Initiative
"Rewards for Green Behavior," Ron Gonen, Founder and CEO, Recycle Bank
Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation
"Clean Off-Grid Lighting," Gaurav Gupta, Partner, Dalberg and Founder, The Climate Project, India
Lakshman D. Guruswamy, PhD, Nicholas Doman Professor of Law; Director, Center for Energy & Environmental Security; University of Colorado at Boulder, School of Law
"Wireless Adherence Monitoring Technology," Jessica Haberer, MD, Research Scientist, Harvard Initiative for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
"The Effect of Cooking Stoves on Health: Evidence From A Randomized Experiment in India," Rema Hanna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Rebecca Hardin, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment
Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast
"Authentic Corporate Engagement in Global Health," Laura Herman, Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors
"Not Everyone Cares: Marketing Your Cause in a Cluttered Marketplace," Scott Henderson, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com
"Workshop - Breaking Thru The Clutter: How to Market Your Cause and Attract New Champions," Scott Henderson, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com
"Global Health Education: Policies, Practices, and Innovations in Organizations and Systems," Brian Heuser, M.T.S., Ed.D., Assistant Professor of the Practice of International Education Policy, Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations; Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
"Proceedings From The African Glaucoma Summit," Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center
"Workshop - Starting a Nonprofit: Myths and Realities," Maurice Segall and Rick Hobish, JD, Pro Bono Partnership
"Global Health: Leadership, Not Money," Karl Hofmann, President and CEO, PSI
"Rescuing the Bottom Billion Through Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases," Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute; Distinguished Research Pressor and Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University
"BOPportunities: New Business Models for Prevention," Paul Hudnut, Global Social & Sustainable Enterprise Program, College of Business-Colorado State University; Founder and Director, Envirofit International
"Global Infertility and the Millennial Challenge of Reproductive 'Tourism,'" Marcia Inhorn, MPH, PhD, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs Chair, Council on Middle East Studies
Jonathan Jackson, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dimagi
"IQSolutions, Using Health Informatics to Make Informed Decisions," Bobby Jefferson, Health IT Project Manager, Futures Group
"Farmers First: Scaling a Permanent and Sustainable End To Hunger," Tony Kalm, Director, One Acre Fund
"Making Universal Access to MDR-TB Treatment a Reality: The Path Forward," Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
"Food Industry's Role in Finding Solutions to Global Nutrition Challenges," Mehmood Khan, Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, PepsiCo
"Ecological Sanitation in Emergencies: Turning Wastes into Resources in Post-Earthquake Haiti," Sasha Kramer, PhD, Co-founder and Executive Director, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL); Adjunct Professor, Department of International Studies, University of Miami
"The Road To Hell: The Ethics of Global Health Response," Gregory Luke Larkin, MD, Professor & Chief, Section of International Emergency Medicine & Global Health, Yale School of Medicine
"How To Create a Social Venture," Moses Lee, Managing Editor, NextBillion.net; Entrepreneurship Academic Program Manager and Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan
"Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business," Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something
"Building Widespread Political Support for Newborn, Child and Maternal Health," Charles MacCormack, CEO, Save The Children
"Agriculture, The Other Health Intervention," Bonnie McClafferty, Head, Development & Communications, HarvestPlus
John McGoldrick, JD, Chairman, Zimmer Holdings, Inc., and Special Advisor, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
"Collective Rights to HIV Prevention: Human Rights for the Public's Health," Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Power of Social Entrepreneurship to Change an Industry," Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO, New Leaf Paper
"Workshop - The Power of Social Entrepreneurship to Change an Industry," Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO, New Leaf Paper
"The Talent Gap: A Leadership Opportunity," Blair Miller, Talent Manager, Acumen Fund
"Blindness Prevention in Developing Nations: A Pictorial Narrative," Nader Moinfar, MD, Diplomate, American Board of Ophthalmology; Fellow, American Society of Retina Specialists; Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Central Florida School of Medicine; Magruder Eye Institute
"Architecture for the Underserved," Michael Murphy, MASS Group
"Clean Energy -- A Key to Health and Development," Anne Murray, Senior Development Officer, E+CO
Moses Musaazi, PhD, Professor and Former Head, Electrical Engineering Department, Makerere University; Founder and Managing Director of Technology for Tomorrow; Developer of Makapad
"Know What I Really Need? Participatory Medical Device Design and Implementation," Kristian R. Olson, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Inpatient Clinician Educator Service, MGH; Program Leader, CIMIT Global Health Initiative; Executive Committee, MGH Center for Global Health; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
"Photonics Based Telemedicine Technologies Toward Smart Global Health Systems," Aydogan Ozcan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
"Disability in the Developing World--Is There a Solution?" Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, CBM-US
Momar Ndao, DVM, MSc, PhD, Director, National Reference Centre for Parasitology; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases; Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
"Electronic Medical Records: On Becoming a Digital Doctor," Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
Ken Patterson, RESULTS Educational Fund, Global Grassroots Manager
"Building Successful Public Private Partnerships in Global Health: A Private Sector Perspective From The Malaria Community," Steven Phillips, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation
"Workshop - Design Global Change," Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor, University of Hartford
"Empowering Women to Have The Children They Want Safely," Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG, Bixby Professor, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley
"Project Firefly: Next-Generation Infant Phototherapy for Developing Countries," Timothy Prestero, CEO, Design That Matters
Iqbal Quadir, Founder and Director, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, MIT
"Health Systems Strengthening in Fragile States - What Do We Know? Examples From MSH Work," Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH, President & CEO, Management Sciences For Health
"How Can The Global Health Community Leverage Data Online for Decisions and Impact?" Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications
"Bioethical Considerations in Surgical Volunteerism," Aron Rose, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
"Microbicides for HIV Prevention: New Science, New Hope," Zeda Rosenberg, CEO, International Partnership for Microbicides
Jennifer Ruger, PhD, MSc, Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Public Health
"YOUTH ZONES: A Film and Poetry Initiative on Young People from Conflicts and Natural Disasters," Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
"Economic Evaluation of Global Health Through Cost-Benefit and Cost Effectiveness Analysis," Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, USAID
Harshad Sanghvi, Vice President and Medical Director of JHPIEGO
Simon Sinek, Sinek Partners
"WE CARE Solar - Bringing Light to Maternal Health Care," Laura Stachel, MD, MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Co-Founder, WE CARE Solar
"Reducing Maternal Mortality: Designing Programs for Success in Developing Countries," Mary Ellen Stanton, USAID Senior Maternal Health Advisor
"Sustainable Development Through Carbon Finance and Social Enterprise: Case Studies in Kenya, Rwanda, and Afghanistan," Evan A. Thomas, PhD, P.E. Executive Vice President, Manna Energy Limited
"Patient Adherence to Glaucoma Medications: Current Concepts," James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
"Overcoming Barriers to Launching Student-Initiated Health Enterprises," Jill Tucker, Senior Program Officer, Lemelson Foundation
"Local Representation in Development Efforts," Jeremy Levine and Landon Van Soest, Producers, Good Fortune; Filmmakers Transient Pictures
"Film Screening: GOOD FORTUNE," Jeremy Levine and Landon Van Soest, Producers, Good Fortune; Filmmakers Transient Pictures
"Global HIV Prevention," Sten Vermund, MD, PhD, Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
"Hearing The Unheard Cry: Strategies to Save Newborn Lives at Scale," Steve Wall, Senior Newborn Health Research Advisor, Save The Children
"WaterCredit: Driving Financial Innovation in Water Supply & Sanitation For The Poor," Gary White, Executive Director, Water.org
"Design Thinking For Social Innovation," Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO
"Workshop - Design Thinking," Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO
"Narrowing The Gap Between Evidence and Action in Global Health," Gavin Yamey, MD, MA, MRCP, Lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group
"ECOfashion: An ECOpreneur's Journey to Transform the Global Textile Industry," Marci Zaroff, Founder and CEO, FASE; Founder, Under the Canopy